Art And Culture

‘Iranian Children, Iranian Dolls’ Festival was held in Tehran’s Milad Tower on October 5.

Organized in cooperation with Jame-Jam TV Network, the festival started in the evening in the…

Shahram Mokri’s ‘Fish & Cat’ was finally released by the ‘art and experience’ cinema group on October 5.

Director of Azadi Cinema, one of the five theaters to screen the experimental…

This year’s edition of the International Exhibition of Sport and Sport Equipment (SPORTEX),  October 8 to 11 at Imam Khomeini Mosalla grounds, Tehran, will host the biggest and most…

Toronto’s newly opened Aga Khan Museum aims to showcase Islamic civilization’s contributions to world heritage, and among them, Persian art takes a prominent place.

The veteran Khorasani singer and musician Golam-Ali Pour-Ataei, who was hospitalized in Mashhad city due to lung infection and gallstones, passed away on October 4.

On the occasion of the National Children’s Day (October 8), Pars Music Group, performed the operetta of Ahmad Shamlou’s famous work ‘Khorus Zari, Pirhan Pari’ on October 3 in Vahdat Hall, Tehran…

The Middle Eastern Art Sale organized by Bonhams will be held on October 7 in London presenting modern and contemporary works from Muslim countries and India.

Bonhams, founded in 1793, is…

The stunt group ‘13’ from Iran won the first prize in the ‘jumping by car’ section in the international festival of professional stuntmen, Prometheus 2014, in Russia.

Teams from the Russian…

The secretary of Mustafa Prize, named after Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) said a database of 550 eminent scientists in the Islamic world has been established, as part of the activities of the prize…

Friday recorded the 21st golden hit for Iran after three final match wins helped the country break the 20-gold tally accomplished during the 2010 Games in China.    

Close to 100,000 centers for ‘Jashne Atefeha’, a philanthropic festival to collect donations and gifts for underprivileged school children, will be inaugurated throughout the country on October 8…

“Here I am at your service, oh Allah, here I am - here I am. No partner do you have.  Here I am. Truly, the praise and the favor are yours, and the dominion. No partner do you have.”

Film star Gérard Depardieu, who left his native France after a tax row with authorities, said in an interview on Thursday that the French have become miserable under President François Hollande,…

In a ceremony held on October 1 to honor older persons, a commemorative stamp for the elderly was unveiled.

Minister of Cooperative, Labor and Welfare Ali Rabeie, Deputy of Welfare Ahmad…

The ‘Song of Peace’ concert with memorable pieces from the soundtrack scores of movies and TV series will be staged at Vahdat Hall on October 4.

Conducted by Mehdi Vojdani, a group of 17…

Iran will participate in the 33rd Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF) with more than 500 books from some 300 publishers.

Close to 250 children’s books, 70 titles on sacred defense, 50 on the Islamic…

The operetta ‘Khorus Zari, Pirhan Pari’ is to be performed on the occasion of National Children’s Day (October 8) and 475 children and adolescent musicians and singers will stage Ahmad Shamlou’s…

Iranian structural engineer Mahdi Arezoumandi, one of the five awardees of the 2014 O.H. Ammann Research Fellowships in structural engineering from the US Structural Engineering Institute (SEI),…

Flipping through a dusty folder of unidentified music scores in Budapest’s national library, Hungarian scholar Balazs Mikusi’s heart skipped a beat when he came across four pages of the score of a…

The popular puppet character ‘Pangul’ will feature in its first film in the near future.

TV show host and actor Hooman Haji-Abdollahi who is better known for his voiceover for Pangul…

Iranian film director Ebrahim Ebrahimiyan whose first movie, ‘Sending a Condolences Ad to Newspaper,’ is waiting to be locally screened, announced the presence of his film in two international…

Eight Iranian artists are taking part in the 10th Vienna Art Fair along with other artists from three continents.

A total of 118 galleries are being presented at this year’s edition of the…

Four more golds won by Iranian athletes on the eleventh day of 2014 Asian Games have put Kazakhstan within reach on the 4th spot of the overall medals table.

The director of the play “O the Lo!” said Othello is portrayed as a matador in this version of William Shakespeare’s well-known tragedy.

Students of Eshragh Institute of higher education in Bojnourd, North Khorasan Province, managed to break the world record for the longest domino structure on September 29.